Improvement in beit-tightening devices



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No. 179,487. Patented July 4,1876.

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GEORGE W. PARRIS EI, OF SALEM, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF HIS RIGHT TO ROBERT B. MOORMAN, OF BIG LICK, VIRGINIA.

IMPROVEMENT EN BELT-TIGHTENING DEVICES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. E79A87, dated July 4, 1876; application filed March 2, 1876.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. PARRISH, of Salem, in the county of Roanoke and State of Virginia, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Buckles for TighteningBands and Belts, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings.

Figure 1 represents my invention as attached to a belt or'band.

1 represents the belt or band; A, the jaws, which are shown more in detail by Fig. 3; B, the brace supporting band I, and riveted to it at b I); O, the detaining-flap, which is made with teeth, varying in number, according to the width of the belt or band used, and which is inserted in thejawsat A A, thejaws being riveted to the belt or band at a a.

.When large belts or bands are to be used, v the detaining-flap 0' should pass through the outside surface of the bandno metal or other friction-causing material being used on the under side, save the rivets, which should becountersunk to a level with the belt or band used, and that, when desired, my attachment permitting of being used upon all belts or bands, because made of the exact Width of the band used, thus doing away- 

